The World Health Organization (WHO) is committed to standing side by side with the Vietnamese government in ensuring food safety, Jeffery Kobza, acting chief representative of the WHO in Vietnam, has said. The WHO official made the commitment at a...
Vietnamese school girls and female students get around 150,000 abortion cases every year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Population and Family Planning. The figure accounts for half of the total abortion cases in the country...
Vietnamese doctors have successfully conducted a non-relative umbilical cord blood transplant for a 28-year patient with acute leukemia this week, marking it the first case so far, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported, citing the National...
Vietnam’s health authorities have intensified their efforts to combat and prevent avian influenza A/H5N6 from spreading to humans, the state-run Vietnam News newspaper reported on April 8. The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked authorities in Nghe...
Ho Chi Minh City will build the second Oncology Hospital in District 9, at a total cost of nearly VND5.9 trillion ($274 million) which is sourced from the State budget and other legal capital resources. The 1,000 patient-bed hospital will be...
Doctors from the Vietnam National Hospital of Paediatrics and the Vietnam National Heart Institute successfully replaced an inferior vena cava, the main vein in the stomach, and removed a tumor on a child who suffers from renal cancer. He was the...
UNICEF aims to assure 50% of children around the world are breastfed exclusively in their first six months, but Vietnam has only reached 17%, an Asia-Pacific UNICEF representative said at a recent conference on nutrition in Hanoi. The percentage in...
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) comparison of per capita consumption in liters of pure alcohol, Vietnamese—at 8.7 liters per year—out-drink residents of all other Southeast Asian nations. "There's a huge problem with drinking in...
Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances causes more than 200 diseases that claim an estimated 2 million lives globally each year, said the World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam. WHO in Vietnam made the...
A shortage of clean water would affect residents in several parts of Hanoi district this summer, the Hanoi Water Supply Company said. The shortage of water is expected to reach 60,000cu.m per day, while the demand for clean water in summer increases...
